Kenneth Kaunda person
also: Kenneth Karunda, Karunda, Kuanda, Kaunda
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Kissinger credits Zambian leader Kenneth Karunda in the April 1975 visit with convincing him and Ford that the MPLA could not be permitted to win the Angola election, of course, because they're communist.…
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Another interpretation of U.S. intervention is that Washington, concerned with the perception of its weakness in Vietnam, chose Angola to get involved in because they felt like they could then wipe Vietnam out of the bad taste that it had l…
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that African leaders agreed with his stand proved completely misleading. Karunda, in fact, had supported the MPLA, but a faction that lost out, giving him motive to then be against it. So in other words, sour grapes. But the Secretary of St…
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50 unarmed MPLA activists were killed, gunned down in the street. These attacks, emboldened by CIA support, ended any possibility of a coalition government. Thus, both the initial CIA subsidy and the outbreak of fighting predated any appeal…
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While Portugal was in charge, years before, the Soviets had been supplying weapons to resistant forces against Portugal, but they had stopped that for several years. Now it's back on. Moscow had favored the same MPLA faction as Kenneth Kaun…
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At all, the NSC meeting, the fateful one that took place the same afternoon. Secretary Kissinger's briefing memorandum for Ford conceded that U.S. interests were important but not vital. And noted Mubato's push for intervention. Contrary to…
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but probably favorable since immediately after, President Ford asked if there are specific proposals for providing them weapons. Ford also asked that diplomacy would be naive. The group does recognize Kaunda's encouragement of U.S. interven…